There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

对虚荣心的细腻的皮肤来说，没有什么比应用粗糙的真理更令人痛苦的了。

-- Edward Bulwer Lytton 爱德华·鲍尔·莱顿